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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

"They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America."
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"Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents."

"I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road."

"Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images."

"I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school."

"I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it."

"I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of."

"Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance."
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